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Notes on applied AI

Practical insight on building and governing AI systems, for leaders and founders.New models, benchmarks and the methods we use ourselves.

11 Aug 2026 · RS Management

Does AI Recommend Your Company?

AI crawlers read company sites far more often than they send a visitor back. What that means, what not to buy and how to measure your own visibility.

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7 Aug 2026 · RS Management

Popular AI Repos on GitHub

The most popular AI projects on GitHub in August 2026 and what star counts reveal about maturity and what they hide.

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4 Aug 2026 · RS Management

The AI Act After 2 August 2026

The AI Act after 2 August 2026: which obligations now apply, which moved to December 2027 under Regulation 2026/1744, and what HR teams should do.

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21 Jul 2026 · RS Management

Tokens and Context

Cutting AI running costs: prompt caching, history summarisation, retrieval instead of pasting, model routing and output length caps.

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7 Jul 2026 · RS Management

MCP or CLI

How the Model Context Protocol compares with CLI and script integrations: when standardization pays off, when a script is enough, and how to audit calls.

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23 Jun 2026 · RS Management

Better Prompting at Work

Five parts of a prompt that actually change the output, before and after pairs from everyday office work, and how to iterate when the first answer misses.

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9 Jun 2026 · RS Management

Running Models Locally

A practical look at hardware tiers for running AI models locally, from laptops to unified-memory machines, and where the case against API breaks down.

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26 May 2026 · RS Management

How to Read AI Model Benchmarks Without Buying Marketing

Training data contamination, label errors and version variance make model leaderboards misleading. How to build a test set on your own data instead.

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12 May 2026 · RS Management

Commercial AI APIs or Open Weights

When a commercial API model wins and when open weights win: data confidentiality, cost at scale, quality in non-English languages, version control.

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28 Apr 2026 · RS Management

From POC to Production

Most AI proofs of concept never reach production. Five differences that separate a pilot ending in a demo from one that ships.

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14 Apr 2026 · RS Management

Chatbots and Voicebots in a Large Organization

What decides whether a chatbot or voicebot works at enterprise scale: knowledge quality, data separation, escalation paths and content upkeep.

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10 Mar 2026 · RS Management

The EU AI Act Is Already Law

The EU AI Act is already in force. A practical guide for leaders in banking, pharma and energy on what changed, who is liable and where to start preparing.

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26 Feb 2026 · RS Management

When One AI Agent Stops Being Enough

Why a single generalist AI agent breaks down as scope grows, and how a coordinated swarm of specialists restores quality, control and accountability.

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25 Feb 2026 · RS Management

Model Routing

A practical framework for deciding which AI model should handle which task, based on cost, latency and risk rather than habit.

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